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Originally Posted by swa(y)
haha...seriously, like who the fuck are you?
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The Lone Ranger, a Jazzmaster on my back, and an understanding of inflation calculators. The price of guitars has remained sort of constant. Be glad you are not a cellist, and have to shell out 100K for your instrument. Not that I wouldn't want to have Fender rescind their 30% price increase. Sigh.
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Originally Posted by Sonic Youth 37
The one on Thurston's is the Fender version of a Tune-o-matic. The same bridge is on my Mascis Jazzmaster and it ssssssuuuuucccckkkkksssss.
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I have 3 Jazzmasters- a '64 with a Novak JM pole piece humbucker in the bridge position, and a mustang bridge. After 20 years of using the mustang bridge, you get used to it, though it does feel kind of cheap and flimsy.
I have one of the Mascis reissues. I put in a set of Novak jazzmaster pole piece humbucker pickups, and that crappy fender tune-o-matic bridge, which pops strings more than the stock jazzmaster bridge. The guitar weighs about a thousand pounds. Why do I play it all the time? Every time I pick it up, I write another song, until my back starts complaining. There are some drop-in bridge replacements I should try. Maybe I should tie some helium balloons to the neck and body.
My 3rd JM is a '63 body with an allparts neck on it, Lollar p90s, and a mastery bridge. I'm not sure how I feel about the Mastery- it is very well made, works the best out of all of the bridge replacements I have tried, but it doesn't sound right. Not sure why. I'm going to pop the buzzstop I had on that guitar, and see if it regains the sound it had before. Anybody else think the Mastery changed the sound of their guitar?
Also- I have yet to find a single place that has any of the SY Jazzmasters- sweetwater, guitar center, musician's friend all have no listing for them. Has anyone actually laid eyes on in a store?